Alabama Wins SEC Title, Will Face Notre Dame Next (Beat Georgia 32-28)

Hey, I was there too! But I was only 8 so you heard no profanities from me nor my family. We don’t use the bad language. Sorry you experienced the nasty fans. We are not all like that. We usually have around 98,000-100,000 people attend games. I’m sure if you put 100,000 people together from any place, you are going to see some bad apples. I am trying to take the high road. You keep sounding like you have a chip on your shoulder. Roll Tide brother. May the best team win!

Thanks. You are gracious. But, no chip. Just tired of the constant Notre Dame bashing and the arrogant SEC blather (and note, I am a die-hard Southerner). But, read carefully and you will notice that I have also said a good thing or two about Bama, such as their willingness to play schools outside the South, relative to other SEC teams. And yet, then again, maybe when Bama stops so absurdly claiming the 1973 championship, which was won on the field before my own eyes, I’ll be less inclined to feel the insult. Go Irish!

Here are all of the bowls:

BCS Title Game: Alabama vs. Notre Dame
Rose Bowl: Wisconsin vs. Stanford
Orange Bowl: Northern Illinois vs. Florida State
Sugar Bowl: Florida vs. Louisville
Fiesta Bowl: Kansas State vs. Oregon
Capital One Bowl: Georgia vs. Nebraska
Cotton Bowl: Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma
Armed Forces Bowl: Rice vs. Air Force
Poinsettia Bowl: BYU vs. San Diego State
New Orleans Bowl: East Carolina vs. Louisiana-Lafayette
New Mexico Bowl: Arizona vs. Nevada
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Toledo vs. Utah State
Petersburg Bowl: Central Florida vs. Ball State
Las Vegas Bowl: Washington vs. Boise State
Hawaii Bowl: SMU vs. Fresno State
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl: Western Kentucky vs. Central Michigan
Military Bowl: Bowling Green vs. San Jose State
Belk Bowl: Duke vs. Cincinnati
Holiday Bowl: UCLA vs. Baylor
Independence Bowl: Ohio vs. Louisiana-Monroe
Athletic Bowl: Virginia Tech vs. Rutgers
Texas Bowl: Texas Tech vs. Minnesota
Pinstripe Bowl: West Virginia vs. Syracuse
Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl: Arizona State vs. Navy
Alamo Bowl: Texas vs. Oregon State
Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl: Michigan State vs. TCU
Music City Bowl: NC State vs. Vanderbilt
Sun Bowl: Georgia Tech vs. USC
Liberty Bowl: Tulsa vs. Iowa State
Chick-fil-A Bowl: LSU vs. Clemson
Gator Bowl: Northwestern vs. Mississippi State
Heart of Dallas Bowl: Oklahoma State vs. Purdue
Outback Bowl: Michigan vs. South Carolina
BBVA Compass Bowl: Pittsburgh vs. Mississippi
GoDaddy.com Bowl: Kent State vs. Arkansas State

The Rose, Sugar and Orange Bowl games are all clunkers. Nobody is going to watch them.

How many empty seats will there be at that FSU-Northern Illinois game. I guarantee the crowd that is there will almost all be NIU fans.

Florida gets to go up against their old DC, Charlie Strong, so there is some intrigue there.

The Fiesta is the best one out of the bunch, outside of the Bama-ND Championship Game.

The Cotton Bowl should be fun.

The Holiday Bowl with Baylor and UCLA also looks intriguing.

Those were the rules at the time. So it counts.

Same thing sorta happened in 1964 when BOTH major polls awarded the NC BEFORE the bowl games. Bama won, the was beaten by Texas in the bowl game.

So, next year the AP people decided to award their championship after the bowl games. Bama was NOT #1 at the time, having a loss and a tie on their record. But after the game, there they were back on top.

Roll Tide.

When he was head coach of the Dolphins rumors came up about him taking the same job with Alabama.

Saban was hounded by reporters about the rumors and said: “I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.” Two weeks later the school introduced him as the head coach.

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